Battery Life of iPhone 4S Draining Too Fast? Try Calibrating the Battery

Oct 17, 2011 - 64 Comments
battery life of iPhone 4 vs iPhone 4S

Some users are indicating the iPhone 4S battery isn’t lasting as long as expected, this comes alongside separate reports of iOS 5 battery life draining quicker than usual. While some of the 4S battery life complaints could be attributed to the aforementioned iOS 5 issues (most of which are easy to fix by adjusting settings), … Read More

Enable Motion Blur in Mission Control for Mac OS X Lion

Oct 17, 2011 - 27 Comments
Motion Blur in Mission Control on Mac OS X Lion

Mission Control in Mac OS X Lion has a hidden motion blur effect that can be enabled quite easily:

How to Increase Font Size in Safari on iPhone by Using Reader

Oct 16, 2011 - 5 Comments
Larger text on iPhone by using Safari Reader

Have you ever wanted to make the text size on a webpage bigger when you’re reading a web site on an iPhone? Some web pages are easy to read on iPhone, and some are not. If you find font or text sizes in Safari to be maddeningly small for some web pages when you’re reading … Read More

iOS 5 Battery Life Worse? Fix Draining Battery Problems with these Tips

Oct 16, 2011 - 165 Comments
iOS 5 Battery Life Issues

Many users who have upgraded to iOS 5 have noticed decreased battery life, the problem seems to effect iPhone and iPad users the worst, but some iPod touch users have noticed battery reductions as well. Even without heavy usage and when a device is in standby mode, the battery seem to drain much quicker than … Read More

How to Use the Camera from Lock Screen in iOS 5

Oct 14, 2011 - 73 Comments
Use the camera from lock screen in iOS 5

Yet another great feature of iOS 5 is the instant camera access from your lock screen. This lets you quickly pull out your iPhone (or iPad and iPod touch of course) and take pictures without having to unlock the iPhone or clicking on the camera app. Here’s how to use this quick camera access trick … Read More

Hide Purchases from the App Store in iTunes, iOS, & Mac OS X

Oct 14, 2011 - 10 Comments
Unhide hidden purchases in the App Store

New to Mac OS X and iOS is the ability to hide purchases from appearing in the Mac App Store, iOS App Store, and the iTunes Store purchased items lists. This is great if you download tons of stuff but use only a fraction of apps, and you don’t want the other items clogging up … Read More

iPhone 4S vs iPhone 4 Speed Test Comparison

Oct 14, 2011 - 5 Comments

We already know the iPhone 4S is significantly faster than the iPhone 4 just by looking at the tech specs, but sometimes the best way to see a speed boost is in real world activities like launching apps, browsing the web, and just tapping around in general. This video shows the two devices side by … Read More

Move Newsstand App Into a Folder on iOS 5

Oct 13, 2011 - 19 Comments
Newsstand in Folder

Those who have upgraded to iOS 5 have probably noticed that little Newsstand icon is unable to be moved to a folder, and like all other Apple iOS apps, it can’t be deleted. Well, a little tip from The Coding Massacre has made the rounds that shows us how we can force the Newsstand app … Read More

How to Use Wi-Fi Sync for iPhone, iPad, & iPod touch with iOS

Oct 13, 2011 - 135 Comments

By far one of the best features of iOS is wireless syncing and backing up, as the name implies it allows you to wirelessly transfer apps, music, books, contacts, calendars, movies, photos, everything you had to use a wired sync for, but it’s done through the air. As long as your iPhone, iPad, or iPod … Read More

“Internal Error” or “Unknown Error” Occurred During iOS Install? Easy Fix!

Oct 12, 2011 - 24 Comments
Internal error during iOS 5 update

While many users have reported trouble free updates to iOS, others are running into a variety of errors in the process. One of the more common is “Error 3200” or “Error 3002”, the fix for that is fairly simple and we’ve already covered it but nonetheless the error has plagued enough users for it to … Read More

Set Up iCloud in iOS & Mac OS X

Oct 12, 2011 - 104 Comments
iCloud

Apple has rolled out iCloud, the cloud syncing service that automatically syncs all your content to all of your devices, be it an iPhone, iPod touch, Mac, PC, iPad, whatever. It also includes things like Find My iPhone and Find My Mac, in addition to several web apps that let you get your Mail, Contacts, … Read More

Steve Jobs Planned Out 4 Years of New Products Before Death, Apple’s Future Will “Blow Your Mind”

Oct 11, 2011 - 40 Comments
One More Thing... & Steve Jobs

“I believe Apple’s brightest and most innovative days are ahead of it.” That is what Steve Jobs said in his resignation letter from August, and now, despite his passing, we’re starting to understand why. Citing sources within Apple, the DailyMail says that Steve Jobs carefully planned out four years of new products for the company … Read More

Clean the Mac OS X Desktop Automatically

Oct 11, 2011 - 11 Comments
Clean a Mac OS X Desktop, Automatically

If your Mac OS X desktop quickly turns into a cluttered mess of files and folders while you work, you’re not alone. The busier (or less organized) you are, the quicker this accumulates, until finally the Finder is so covered in files that you can barely see the wallpaper. Sometimes mine gets so full that … Read More

Will the iPhone Always Have a 3.5″ Screen?

Oct 10, 2011 - 42 Comments
iPhone screen size and accessibility

Ever wonder why the iPhone has a 3.5″ screen while the Android world is off pushing into greater and greater dimensions? Dustin Curtis theorizes that the reason iPhone continues to have a 3.5″ screen is so that nearly everyone can use the phone one-handed, because their thumbs reach nearly everywhere on the screen without trouble. … Read More

Charlie Rose on Steve Jobs Legacy, with Eric Schmidt, Mark Andreessen, & Walt Mossberg

Oct 9, 2011 - 10 Comments

Charlie Rose has spent the latter half of this week with segments and interviews devoted to Steve Jobs. The video above features discussions with former Google CEO and current Google Chairman Eric Schmidt, Wall Street Journal reporter and friend of Jobs, Walt Mossberg, and Marc Andreessen, a venture capitalist and the creator of the Mosaic … Read More

Apple History Book “The Macintosh Way” by Guy Kawasaki, Available Free

Oct 8, 2011 - 19 Comments
The Macintosh Way, by Guy Kawasaki

Interested in Apple history? You should download Guy Kawasaki’s book “The Macintosh Way”, which he just made available for free as a PDF right here. Guy Kawasaki worked at Apple from 1983 to 1987 and was one of the employees charged with marketing the Macintosh at its introduction in 1984. Adding even more Apple history … Read More

GLaDOSiri = Siri + Portal

Oct 8, 2011 - 8 Comments

Anyone who’s a fan of Portal should appreciate this mockup video, which features the voice of the malevolent AI system from the game series, GLaDOS, replacing the default voice of Apple’s new Siri assistant. So nerdy, but so cool, it’d be great if this actually came to fruition, but don’t get your hopes up. Siri … Read More

The Banned iPhone 4S Promo Video [Humor]

Oct 7, 2011 - 6 Comments

It’s been a week where some humor is much needed, so the guys who put together the ridiculous and so-called ‘banned’ promo videos for various Apple products pulled through with a drunken rendition for the iPhone 4S. It’s got some inappropriate language so it may not be the best thing to blast on your work … Read More

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